This is no time to disrupt Buhari

The recent allegation in an article in the London Telegraph’s, claiming that President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration is targeting Christians and the opposition is not only dismissible but highly divisive and sickening to men and women of conscience in Nigeria, a country that is rediscovering itself from the wilderness. Not quite long, the same newspaper accused […]

The recent allegation in an article in the London Telegraph’s, claiming that President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration is targeting Christians and the opposition is not only dismissible but highly divisive and sickening to men and women of conscience in Nigeria, a country that is rediscovering itself from the wilderness.
Not quite long, the same newspaper accused President Buhari of Using UK’s aid to persecute his political rivals-what a grievous and an unsubstantiated claim.
Buhari is not the architect of our present condition and if anything, he has, in the last one year, diagnosed most of the teething problems that were threatening the corporate existence of the country-The U.K based newspaper should commend our president for this.
Rather than fanning the embers of hatred and discomfort among the diverse ethnic and religious nationalities in Nigeria, we expect our foreign allies to either speak the truth or just keep mute and not in any way set the pace for inglorious rivalry.
For Nigeria to develop and for its people to enjoy their life, this scoundrel morbid must be addressed squarely without evasion. But, as a complex country, Nigeria needs scrupulous and punctilious approach so that the government will not be stampeded to do thing frenziedly and headlong and thank God, we have found that character in our president.
Some Nigerians and foreigners were unjustly accusing Mr. President and his government and want to crucify him for the present hardship we are passing through, but they ironically refused to see the chief factors that led to the present situation, including high cost of living.
Nobody expected that the petroleum price will drop from over 100 dollars per barrel to about $29 per barrel.
It is bewildering why some people condone and overlook the intense vandalism of the pipelines in order to undercut and undermine the efforts of the Federal Government. Our foreign reserve has gone down as low as to 20 billion dollars or so, while countries like Saudi Arabia, which is much smaller in population than Nigeria, has much more money in its foreign reserve when ours was looted into personal pockets, making our naira very light against the US dollar.
Therefore, I will never hesitate to appeal to Nigerians be virtuous by being patient and give this government a chance.
One of the most laudable programmes of this administration is the green revolution. We must reduce our over dependence on oil. If we support this project, we will reach where the Americans reached in 1993 under the Secretary of State for Agriculture Henry Wallace. That was the state of AAA- Agricultural Adjustment Administration.
M. Muazu Nguru is the Director/CEO, Nigeria Arabic Language Ngala.